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“The Yii Book (2nd Edition)” Version 2.0 Posted

November 25, 2024

It took forever, but the fifth and final update for version 2 of the Yii framework has been posted. This brings the book to version 2.0. After a lifetime and half, and probably beyond when it’s of much use to anyone, the book is officially complete.

It took forever, and then another few years. It was just a ton of work and my life changed in ways that made having dedicated time to work on this super hard. I’ll always feel terrible about how long it took to complete the second edition. But it’s done now.

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Status Check on “The Yii Book” (2nd Edition)

February 23, 2015

Hey, ho! Just a quick check-in to let you know where things stand on the second edition of “The Yii Book”, for version 2 of the Yii framework. Over the past month I’ve started sequentially going through the book to update it for the new Yii version. I’ve also set targets in my mind, with my own target deadline (not sharing, because then it’s just embarrassing when the deadline sails past).

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“The Yii Book”, complete version 1, done! (Finally!)

December 22, 2014

Why…Hello! I am very pleased, and elated, and relieved (mostly relieved) to say that the first edition (i.e., for Yii 1) of “The Yii Book” is finally, finally, finally! done. I posted it earlier today. I’m going to skip the obligatory–and deserved–“OMG I’m sorry it took so long” and get onto the “What’s next?”.

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“The Yii Book”, Code for Chapters 22 & 23

November 18, 2014

Chapters 22 and 23 of “The Yii Book” are example chapters, in which I don’t cover new material but rather put together previous material in a more complete context. These example chapters have been popular in my other books, so I thought I’d include two in this book. The specific examples I came up with are:

A blog/CMS example
An e-commerce site
The blog (Chapter 22) is a more complete version of what was commonly used as an example throughout the entire book. For the e-commerce example, I came up with the idea of selling books (imagine that!).

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Much Ado About Yii

October 21, 2014

Without much formality (aside from the Shakespeare), I’d like to share four bits of Yii-related news:

The Release Candidate of Yii 2
Progress on “The Yii Book”
Looking ahead to “The Yii 2 Book” (aka, the second edition)
An online Yii 2 presentation I’m doing this Thursday, October 23, 2014 for Nomad PHP

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